Anonymous
Post 04/23/2026 20:35     Subject: Pasta for dinner
If there is any topic that can make DCUM explode, it's the politics of what people feed kids. So many opinions, many snarky comments and insults.

Anonymous
Post 04/23/2026 18:21     Subject: Pasta for dinner
Anonymous wrote:Pasta once in a while is fine, but pasta daily for multiple meals creates fat kids and fatter adults... maybe there is some mitigation if they are in active sports, but that's just kicking the can... not having your kids learn to eat properly nutritious food at an early age is setting them up for "body positivity" as a 300lb+ adult... And even if you are already older and fat, why not set your kids up for a a healthier lifestyle ?


Italians eat pasta nearly every day.
Anonymous
Post 04/23/2026 12:17     Subject: Pasta for dinner
Anonymous wrote:Pasta once in a while is fine, but pasta daily for multiple meals creates fat kids and fatter adults... maybe there is some mitigation if they are in active sports, but that's just kicking the can... not having your kids learn to eat properly nutritious food at an early age is setting them up for "body positivity" as a 300lb+ adult... And even if you are already older and fat, why not set your kids up for a a healthier lifestyle ?


Have you ever heard of portion control?
Anonymous
Post 04/23/2026 07:11     Subject: Pasta for dinner
Anonymous wrote:Pasta once in a while is fine, but pasta daily for multiple meals creates fat kids and fatter adults... maybe there is some mitigation if they are in active sports, but that's just kicking the can... not having your kids learn to eat properly nutritious food at an early age is setting them up for "body positivity" as a 300lb+ adult... And even if you are already older and fat, why not set your kids up for a a healthier lifestyle ?


Define "multiple meals"? A day, a week?

I mean portion control and moderation? I'm a almost 40 woman with a BMI that's nowhere close to overweight, same with my husband and kids and we eat pasta. I even make pasta. I also sometimes make cheesecake.

Teaching your kid that eating healthy means you never eat carbs or sugar is just setting them up for failure. Teaching balance and moderation is far healthier.
Anonymous
Post 04/23/2026 07:02     Subject: Pasta for dinner
Pasta once in a while is fine, but pasta daily for multiple meals creates fat kids and fatter adults... maybe there is some mitigation if they are in active sports, but that's just kicking the can... not having your kids learn to eat properly nutritious food at an early age is setting them up for "body positivity" as a 300lb+ adult... And even if you are already older and fat, why not set your kids up for a a healthier lifestyle ?
Anonymous
Post 04/22/2026 01:48     Subject: Pasta for dinner
Anonymous wrote:Balanced meals become important as you age, to prevent diabetes and high cholesterol. There is science that shows that if you eat fiber first, as in, a small salad, or a few vegetables from your plate, before the carbs and protein, you avoid the worst of blood sugar spikes. So a bowl of pasta without anything else is very dangerous, diabetes-wise. This is something people usually find out when they're diagnosed. I'm telling you now so you can tweak your lifestyle just ever so slightly.


No wonder Americans are so fat. You don’t need three meals as one. Salad, pasta, then a protein seems like overkill for one spur of the moment lunch. That’s a three course meal.

There’s absolutely nothing wrong with pasta with butter or vodka sauce. Please note there is protein and fat in the butter and inside the cheese and heavy cream for the vodka sauce


Anonymous
Post 04/18/2026 18:30     Subject: Pasta for dinner
Gen Z is like that
Anonymous
Post 04/18/2026 13:06     Subject: Pasta for dinner
Anonymous wrote:I love butter pasta. I see nothing wrong with what she served for an everyday impromptu lunch.

My kids are grown, but if I had to whip something up for kids coming off the playground, it would be PB&J with toasted bread and milk. I once offered that to a homeschooled kid and she looked at it like she had never seen such a thing. I figured her parents didn’t use jif but a healthier non sugar brand. Sigh.


I worked outside the house FT when my kids were little--they would likely have looked at it "funny" only because they might be thrilled to get that rather than the sugar free non GMO PB & homemade ww bread they did get. Weird to relate that to homeschool.
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Anonymous
Post 04/18/2026 07:06     Subject: Pasta for dinner
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I love butter pasta. I see nothing wrong with what she served for an everyday impromptu lunch.

My kids are grown, but if I had to whip something up for kids coming off the playground, it would be PB&J with toasted bread and milk. I once offered that to a homeschooled kid and she looked at it like she had never seen such a thing. I figured her parents didn’t use jif but a healthier non sugar brand. Sigh.


I've never heard of making a PBJ on toasted bread.


+1 same!


Try it! Dunk in milk.
Anonymous
Post 04/15/2026 09:25     Subject: Pasta for dinner
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I love butter pasta. I see nothing wrong with what she served for an everyday impromptu lunch.

My kids are grown, but if I had to whip something up for kids coming off the playground, it would be PB&J with toasted bread and milk. I once offered that to a homeschooled kid and she looked at it like she had never seen such a thing. I figured her parents didn’t use jif but a healthier non sugar brand. Sigh.


I've never heard of making a PBJ on toasted bread.


+1 same!
Anonymous
Post 04/15/2026 09:13     Subject: Pasta for dinner
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:There are poor peasants and well-off people.

There is a dietary distinction between them.


Who is posting this garbage? It doesn’t even make any sense.


Probably the person who starts all their posts with "I'm French..."
Anonymous
Post 04/15/2026 09:12     Subject: Pasta for dinner
Geez, now all I want for lunch is buttered pastina.
Anonymous
Post 04/15/2026 09:08     Subject: Pasta for dinner
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I love butter pasta. I see nothing wrong with what she served for an everyday impromptu lunch.

My kids are grown, but if I had to whip something up for kids coming off the playground, it would be PB&J with toasted bread and milk. I once offered that to a homeschooled kid and she looked at it like she had never seen such a thing. I figured her parents didn’t use jif but a healthier non sugar brand. Sigh.


I've never heard of making a PBJ on toasted bread.


Me either. But grilled PB sandwiches are a culinary delight that not enough people appreciate. I’ve eaten all over the world at all sorts of restaurants and enjoy an octopus risotto or whatever as much as the next gal — but a fluffernutter sandwich with a glass of cold milk remains one of my dream meals. Along with buttered pastina (maybe with tiny bits of ham ripped up into it).
Anonymous
Post 04/15/2026 08:54     Subject: Pasta for dinner
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I love butter pasta. I see nothing wrong with what she served for an everyday impromptu lunch.

My kids are grown, but if I had to whip something up for kids coming off the playground, it would be PB&J with toasted bread and milk. I once offered that to a homeschooled kid and she looked at it like she had never seen such a thing. I figured her parents didn’t use jif but a healthier non sugar brand. Sigh.


I've never heard of making a PBJ on toasted bread.


Anonymous
Post 04/15/2026 08:24     Subject: Pasta for dinner
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:There are poor peasants and well-off people.

There is a dietary distinction between them.


The fat well-off people are eating food that tastes better than pasta with butter. I know I'd rather get fat on seafood risotto, than on pasta with butter.


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